A BUNCH of lame-brained members of the Indiana state Senate recently made complete asses of themselves when they passed a bill to promote creationism in public schools. Sponsored by Republican Dennis Kruse, the new bill was worded thus: The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of [...]
EARLIER this year, the UK’s Department for Education issued guidance on how to apply for free school or academy status. Guidelines included the requirement that: Creationism, intelligent design and similar ideas must not be taught as valid scientific theories. But, according to this report, critics point out that there is nothing statutory to prevent such [...]
BEFORE Galileo popped up with the “false” notion that the earth revolves around the sun, the planet was in a far better state, with the Catholic Church in a position of absolute authority over worldly affairs. That’s the view of a bunch of barmy Catholics in the US who are determined to turn the clock [...]
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NEXT month – on September 17 – a large-scale protest by secular groups against the Vatican’s persistent interference in politics is due to take place in London. But bizarrely, a left-wing German politician appears to be calling for MORE papal involvement in the way in which countries run their affairs. Ahead of Pope Ratzinger’s visit [...]
AN evangelical scholar in the US has upset hard-line fundamentalists by pointing out the absurdity of the Old Testament’s account of how humanity sprang into being. Dennis Venema, a biologist at Trinity Western University, and a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation – a Christian group that tries to reconcile faith and science – is reported [...]
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P Z MYERS, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota Morris and author of the world’s most widely read science blog Pharyngula, will be in London next month to present a lecture organised by Atheism UK, established to advance atheism in the UK. The title of Myers’ talk – to be delivered at [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
